Pixar in a Box

The animation timeline controls used in these tutorials[1] are better than the ones used for by professional web developers[2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.khanacademy.org&#x2F;partner-content&#x2F;pixar&#x2F;animate&#x2F;ball&#x2F;p&#x2F;squash-and-stretch-animation-with-bezier-curves" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.khanacademy.org&#x2F;partner-content&#x2F;pixar&#x2F;animate&#x2F;ba...</a> [2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;greensock.com&#x2F;timelinemax" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;greensock.com&#x2F;timelinemax</a><p>I wish web devs would stop reinventing the wheel and just steal these UIs from animation software that are proven to work well for animators.

If you want to dive in, this first video has a cool overview of the Pixar-y things the course covers: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.khanacademy.org&#x2F;partner-content&#x2F;pixar&#x2F;start&#x2F;introduction&#x2F;v&#x2F;pipeline-video" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.khanacademy.org&#x2F;partner-content&#x2F;pixar&#x2F;start&#x2F;intr...</a><p>I was disappointed that the landing page says practically nothing, and you have to go looking around to get a good overview.

The &quot;Patterns&quot; lesson is new, it&#x27;s pretty cool.<p>Check it out: Voronoi partition, Poisson disk process, Make your own dinosaur skin, Perlin noise.<p>Very fun. My daughter really enjoyed this when it first came out. She was surprised to see the applications for math she had learned at school!

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I really recommend reading Creativity Inc. By Ed Catmull, one of the cofounders of Pixar. It&#x27;s an incredible book full of insight on how Pixar fosters creativity to create hit after hit movie.<p>It really helped me shift my mind during some difficult projects where I felt like I was working against impossible odds.

Thanks for sharing this, it&#x27;s so awesome!

I&#x27;ll take this opportunity to ask: how do you learn 3D modeling? I tried just diving in with Maya and 3DS Max, but the tools are so complicated and I&#x27;m sure I was doing things the wrong way. I&#x27;m in college right now, but my university (UCSD) doesn&#x27;t seem to offer any courses on the subject.

It&#x27;s good to see Suzanne popping up in so many places!<p>(Suzanne is Blender&#x27;s monkey mesh primitive and logo. Blender uses it where other programs would use the Utah teapot. You see it in the character modeling icon on that page. Wikipedia about it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blender_(software)#Suzanne" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blender_(software)#Suzanne</a>)

&gt; A single frame can take more than 24h to render<p>What, really? I was under the impression that pixar had a render farm large enough to render frames in minutes or even seconds.

&quot;A single frame can take over 24 hours to render. And that&#x27;s just ONE frame&quot;.<p>There are about 150,000 frames in a movie. Not bad.